DARE ~ Make better art by being adventurous and changing up the routines in...
A friend asked me what inspires me in my art. Personally, my best art (writing and photography) comes when I’m in a new situation. What: Be adventurous in big and small ways and change up the routines...
View ArticleLet’s Stop Our Endless Cycle of Waiting ~ Happy New Year 2014!!
We were glad 2011 was over. We were glad 2012 was over. We are glad 2013 will be over. We were glad high school was over, AP classes were over, and college applications were over. We were glad college...
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25 Years and All the Highlights and Lessons
Happy 26th birthday to me!! Here’s a glance back at my own life. (Originally published in 2013.) How I got to where I am today, why I am who I am, and why I do what I do: 1987, age under 1 Highlight:...
View ArticleMy College Application Prank And What I Learned
Background story to one the funniest college applications you’ll ever read: In my senior year of high school, I wondered what would happen if I applied to a college as a joke. My friends couldn’t wait...
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How to Be More Social and Happy: My Story of Turning My Life Around
Dear Everyone In My Life, I think it’s time to reveal a part of my past that none of my college friends could guess about me. This is a story all about how my life got flipped, turned upside-down: I...
View ArticleThe Tale of the American Businessman and Mexican Fisherman
One of my top 10 favorite folk stories about happiness comes from Heinrich Böll, a Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature: An American businessman was standing at the pier of a small coastal Mexican...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Ways to Be Happy: The Most Important Life Lessons on One Page
I’ve read a lot about happiness in books, pop magazines, spiritual texts, and modern scientific research in psychology. I’ve written a little about it too. And I’ve experienced a lot in life, failed a...
View ArticleMy TED Talk ~ The Missing Lesson in Schools: Character Education
What is missing in today’s classroom? What is the most important thing I teach to my middle schoolers? How do we use our classroom to attain world peace? Much of what I write about on this blog makes...
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